Family Portrait With Fidel

Franqui, Carlos

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Language: English

Published by Random House, 1984

0394532600 / 9780394532608

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New York. 1984. January 1984. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394532600. 263 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: John Sposato. keywords: Latin America Cuba Caribbean History. DESCRIPTION - By far the most impressive and important firsthand account of Cuba after the taking of power by Fidel Castro in 1959, FAMILY PORTRAIT WITH FIDEL is a memoir by Carlos Franqui, the archivist of the Cuban Revolution who, as one of Castro's intimates early on, was director of radio and press services throughout the Sierra Maestra campaign against Batista, and later editor of Revolucion, the highly influential vanguard newspaper. Fiercely independent-an apologist neither for the left nor for the right-Franqui, in this brilliant work, gives us, with awesome grace and self-assurance, as keen a psychological and political portrait of Fidel Castro as we are ever likely to get; a dramatic account of the intrigues of the various factions in the Cuban government that vied for Fidel's attention and endorsement from the outset; a revelation of new facts concerning Cuban domestic affairs and foreign policy vis-à-vis the United States, the Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa. And more: master of the telling anecdote that he is, Franqui enlarges our understanding of leading figures he has known through his involvement in the Cuban revolution, including, in addition to Fidel: Che Guevara, Raül Castro, Khrushchev, Mikoyan, Ben Beila, Nehru, Picasso, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Written in lucid and sometimes lyrical prose that has been elegantly translated, Family Portrait with Fidel is perhaps the most valuable testimony we have to one of the signal events in the political history of the twentieth century a book indispensable to any appreciation of the fate of Latin America today. inventory #3472.

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Title
Family Portrait With Fidel
Author
Franqui, Carlos
Publisher
Random House
Publication year
1984
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Very Good in Dustjacket
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
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9780394532608
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